Eric A. Suess, Ph.D. Faculty Profile

Eric
A.
Suess,
Ph.D.

Professor

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Hello,

I am Prof. Eric A. Suess. I am a faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics. I am also jointly appointed in the School of Engineering.

I was Department Chair until the Spring of 2015. Since ending my 3 terms as Chair I have focused on the development and offering of courses related to Data Science.

I have designed and taught courses in Data Visualization and Statistical Learning, at both the graduate and undergraduate level. As part of our transistion to the Semester System Fall 2018, I have designed three more courses, R for Data Science, Applied Natural Language Processing and Applied Deep Learning.

I have also continued to teach core Statistics courses such as Advanced Probability, Survey Sampling, SAS Programming, and Statistical Inference.

My current research interestes continue to include Bayesian Statistics, Time Series Analaysis, Applied Probability, Stochastics Processes, and Simulation. Since ending my terms as Chair I have expanded my efforts into Data Visualization and Statistical Machine Learning. Other areas of interest include Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.

My computing interests continue to be realted to open source software. I use linux and bsd primarily, but still maintain my Windows skills. I use R and Python for data analysis. I use RStudio every day. I have been coverting my data analysis efforts to using R notebooks and jupyter notebooks for reproducible research. For Data Visualization I use R with ggplot2 and other packages. For Machine Learning I use R and Python. For Deep Learning I have been using tensorflow and keras, and have been using an nvidia 1070 GPU. I am insterested in parallel processing and GPU computing. I am also interested in distributed data storage, such as Hadoop and CrateDB. I still use and treach using traditional software such as MS Excel, Minitab, SPSS, and SAS.

Since Fall 2016 I have been advising Engineering Management MS students on their Capstone Projects. These projects relate to applications of Data Science in Engineering Mangement. Topics include Time Series Forecasts, Natural Language Processing, Process Control, and other topics.

I have served on many committees in the university during my time here at CSUEB. I servered on the Semster Conversion College of Science Curriculum Committee. I am on all Departmental committees as a faculty member of the Statistics Department. I have served on the College Computer Advisory Committee. I have served on CAPR, the Library Advisory Committee, COBRA, and UPABC.